Let Children Help With Holiday Preparations At Home
Lincoln experts urge involving preschoolers in tree trimming wrapping and decorating. Marilyn Jirsa and Helen Sulek of UNL advise adapting activities to suit little hands and emphasizing giving over getting. Include simple home crafts bird feeders and family charity to instill holiday meaning.
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Lincoln
Marilyn Jirsa
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Jirsa
Helen Sulek
UNL
Sulek
Remembering Christmas and New Year Reflections
A reflective piece urges recalling Christmas meaning and New Year resolutions. It stresses thanking loved ones and pets, supporting friends, visiting patients and nursing home parents, and appreciating workers. The message centers on kindness, peace on earth, and goodwill toward man.
Holiday hosting tips to keep guests mingling
Plan a relaxed evening with ready snacks placed near chairs. Arrange candy nuts cookies and crackers in separate bowls to encourage conversation and easy movement. Let guests set the pace from cocktails to coffee and enjoy a smooth festive flow.
Sex discrimination persists despite new federal laws
Washington. A NOW study finds lax enforcement of the law banning sex discrimination in schools yields little progress for girls and women. The Project on Equal Education Rights notes foundation funding supports the report entitled Stalled.
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Washington
UPI
Girls and
Women
National
Organization For Women
NOW
Project On
Understanding Your Child and Title IX Critique
A safety notice urges telling children not to touch blasting caps and to report them to police. A four year review finds minimal Title IX progress with 18 districts correcting gender bias in employment and 21 upgrading girls sports, while HEW defends enforcement efforts under Carter.
Origins of common business terms traced by Merriam editors
A UPI overview explains how terms like debt salary dollar average cancel budget and panic originated. It notes debt from debitum and average from Arabic meaning damaged goods, while dollar traces to Joachimstaler and taler from a Bohemian silver mine.
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Leroy Pope
UPI
New York
G.&c Merriam Co
Springfield
Mass
Webster's
Merriam Company
Joachimstaler
Sankt Joachimsthal
Bohemian
Jachymov
Czechoslovakia
Pan
Moneta
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F.B.I
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Matthew
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